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The smell of fear

14 Sunday Aug 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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cult, dumbasses, meta, right wingnuts, trolling, trolls

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Whenever we get a traffic spike the right wingnut trolls come out. They attempt to post comments, usually with misspellings and inadequate grammar. It’s like the punchline to the old joke – “You can always tell a New Yorker by the cut of their clothes.”

As usual, we don’t allowing ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with an original post, but we will present them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit. We see fit.

And so, another crop:

How bout NO…another trash can demorat!

Like you’re convincing anyone around these here parts?

Will not vote for any democrat under the current conditions of our country.

As if you’ve ever voted for a Democrat?

It’s definitely a cult.

When someone posts a comment here their email and IP addresses are part of the record.

Dumbasses.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again

01 Friday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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abortion, dumbass, Fascist pig, meta, right wingnut, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, troll, trolling

“Stupidity may be inherited. Ignorance is a personal choice.”

“…We don’t allow ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we do occasionally present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit…”

We see fit.

Pro-choice demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022

A post on yesterday’s pro-choice demonstration in Sedalia, Missouri went viral. Of course, that attractes right wingnuts who attempt to assert their perceived intellectual dominance:

What idiots. They sound retarded it’s not about it’s about the millions of babies they are murdering each day. Ban viagra that’s ok because it still won’t stop God from planting the seed of life ( a baby) in a woman’s uterus. Sure some pregnancies are horrendous in the way they happened but don’t give the baby the death penalty give the rapist instead

Uh, where to start?

“…They sound retarded…” As, say, opposed to illiterate and ignorant? What’s our troll’s excuse?

“…it’s about the millions of babies they are murdering each day…” However you count it – sperm, zygote, fetus, actual baby – that’s a lot at an annual rate. Our troll also appears to have issues with math literacy. That’s not a surprise.

“…it still won’t stop God from planting the seed of life ( a baby) in a woman’s uterus…” Ah, magic. That explains a lot, just not what our troll thinks it does.

They’re so insecure. Why show up here if they believe that they’ve got what they’ve always wanted?

And finally: When someone submits a comment here their email address and I.P. address are linked to the comment.

Previously:

What gives you the mistaken impression we give a shit about what you think? (June 10, 2022)

Doing the same thing as everyone else and expecting a different result (June 11, 2022)

It’s a cult (June 19, 2022)

Once again, for the people who just got here (June 22, 2022)

The cruelty is the point

03 Saturday Jul 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, social media

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Claire McCaskill, cruelty, missouri, social media, trolling, Twitter

This morning:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
This from the “pro life party”. Such hate is hard for me to fathom.
[….]
7:21 AM · Jul 3, 2021

It’s in their nature.

So that’s how this Twitter machine works…

31 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media

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149th Legislative District, Don Rone, Jason Kander, meta, missouri, ratio, right wingnut, social media, trolling, Twitter

Jason Kander (D) [2016 file photo]

It starts:

Jason Kander @JasonKander
True: Don’t worry dad we always come back.

This generation of #ChiefsKingdom so spoiled!
12:57 PM · Dec 27, 2020

That seemed to irritate Mr. Potter.

Don Rone @rone_don
Replying to @JasonKander

Who cares

7:41 PM · Dec 27, 2020

Bah, humbug, it is.

Some of the responses:

Hey Don,

Your profile says you’re a proud grandpa. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt (though it’s not mine to give) and say you didn’t know he was quoting his son.

Be a human and apologize. Show your grandkids how a stand up guy behaves.

Happy New Year.

Mr. Rone, if your grandkids are handling your tweets, you ought to inform them this type of response (“Who cares”) is petty and rude. At a minimum, whoever is tweeting these zingers should at least use punctuation. I’m left wondering who is “Who” or is it WHO?

He must have been a terrific teacher

You do, Don

Howdy, Don. I care. And apparently over 700 people who liked Jason’s tweet care. For context: That’s equivalent to more than half of the followers you have accumulated since Joining Twitter over six years ago. Take a page from the wife of your party’s leader… Be Best.

You seem nice, especially for a former teacher and pround grandpa.

Don,

I don’t know you but judging by your Twitter account, you seem like the kind of scum who needs to be voted out.

Apparently you do…cranky old bastard

Nice response to a kid. What’s your next act? Kicking a puppy?

Good grief crusty ol guy.

You sound like a great state rep…rude and pointless.

You’re an ass.

Are you 10 years old? Good hell dude, you’re ancient…. grow up.

Republicans are spiraling past the point of no return. They’re all throwing temper tantrums like little children because they’re cult leader lost.

Representative Rone’s (r) biography at the Missouri House of Representatives web site:

Rep. Donald Rone Jr., a Republican, represents New Madrid County and parts of Scott, Mississippi, and Pemiscot Counties (District 149) in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2014.

Prior to his legislative duties, Rep. Rone was an accounts manager for FMC Corporation, Agriculture Solutions. He also spent time as a farmer and as a teacher for Matthews and Portageville High Schools. Rep. Rone has served as Mayor of Portageville Missouri and New Madrid County Public Administrator. Rep. Rone served in the Missouri National Guard.

Rep. Rone is a 1963 graduate from Portageville High School. He received his BS degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1968.

Rep. Rone is a member of the First Church of God in Portageville. He is a lifetime member of the NRA, member of Delta Wildlife and National Wild Turkey Federation, a 32nd degree Mason, and served on the University of Missouri Delta Center Advisory Board for 30 years. Rep. Rone also currently serves on the board of the St. Francis Levee District of Missouri.

Born December 21, 1944 in Cape Girardeau, Rep. Rone currently resides in Portageville…

Heh. Be best.

This morning:

Jason Kander @JasonKander
A Republican elected official clumsily trolling my 7 year old son on twitter seems like the appropriate way to wrap 2020.
[….]
8:29 AM · Dec 31, 2020

It’ll be harder to troll everyone when you’re in prison

14 Tuesday Jul 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Goya, Ivanka Trump, social media, trolling, Twitter

This evening:

Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump
If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.
[….]
9:05 PM · Jul 14, 2020

Some of the responses:

Oh photoshop Twitter is about to wreck you

Goya fuck yourself.

Why is a senior White House official endorsing a food product?

Ladies and gentleman, a message from a senior White House advisor at one of the most tragic moments in America history.

I dont think I have seen anything since this nightmare began that more thoroughly underscores how unfit this entire Administration is to serve.

I know some kids in cages along the southern border who’ve not had a proper meal in quite some time. You might consider addressing their hunger, illness and emotional distress at being imprisoned.

But it would would require you to have a soul.

You’re aging faster than a can of beans

Using the White House to sell beans?

Trumps are such an embarrassment

My God

Um you just broke the law Senior Advisor to the President. Not like you care or anything

Millions unemployed, 136k dead, delays in COVID testing and you’re posing with a can of beans.

Did you use the money you stole from the inauguration fund to buy them.

Fucking grifter.

Whoever is programming the simulation isn’t even trying anymore, folks.

And on and on.

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – meta

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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Corona virus, COVID-19, governor, incompetence, meta, Mike Parson, missouri, pandemic, right wingnuts, stay at home order, trolling

“…Come on, do the right thing. Delay just means more death and suffering. Flatten the goddamned curve…”

Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) still has not issued a “stay at home” order for the state. Because, we don’t know, “rural, something, something.”

Meta.

Yesterday morning on Show Me Progress I put up a post titled “Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor?,” highlighting the Lafayette County Commission’s “stay at home” ordinance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – as opposed to the refusal of Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) to do the same. There has been a precipitous rise in cases in Lafayette County.

The post caused a significant traffic spike. Significant as in the largest number of daily “hits” in almost five years of operating on this platform.

With a traffic spike comes comments and trolling. Show Me Progress is set so that I must personally approve all comments before they’re posted. I see the IP address and the e-mail of the commenter, along with their typed remarks.

I try not to engage right wingnuts directly. By any definition of their thought processes and ideology, it’ a colossal waste of time. I generally delete their comments as they’re in moderation. There’s an old music adage: “You can’t teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” So, I tend to delete trolling comments and ignore them.

Unless it amuses me.

Yesterday morning I received the following, unedited (it went into the trash):

All the armchair warriors .. Your not in charge!
Till you are in control if your (R) or (D) sit back and be quiet.
Your time to comment comes at the polling station.
Since we don’t have all the information we must assume the decisions are best for the majority
Even if it’s not good for you..

A champion of the First Amendment, eh? And don’t start with, “wait, aren’t you censoring this person?” Don’t be an idiot. The First Amendment applies to government action. If trolls want to spew stupidity on the Internets they are perfectly free and able to start their own blog. A place where people can freely choose to read their drivel, or not.

You think they kept their opinion and counsel, not speaking out, from January 2009 to January 2017? Right…

“Even if it’s not good for you..” Seriously, someone believes that. “The needs of the 1%, outweigh the needs of the many” is quite a moral perversion.

That deference to authority figure(s) “…[s]ince we don’t have all the information…” is the ultimate laziness in the Information Age. Such laziness as a foundation for all other social behavior is so 21st century.

Grammar and incoherence aside, somebody should inform this poor person that the current governor of Missouri was not elected to that office.

This (unedited) also went into the trash:

Your article is a hit piece not news. Governor Parsons is doing a great job. In case you are not aware of this we live in a federal style of government. Therefore the local towns can issue a stay at home order when necessary. The whole state does not need to shut down. Show some respect.

Show some respect, learn to spell your governor’s name.

Something, something, Federalism backwards. Ignore actual expertise (science! math!). Ignore the problems in a pandemic (science! math!) generated by a patchwork of responses from county to county, and town to town, because, you know, people don’t ever travel from one place to the other. [That’s how a fucking pandemic works.] Ergo, tautology. Deference to authority, no matter how incompetent. Obvious ignorance of the concept of exponential growth. And willfully ignoring that rural Missouri doesn’t have the health care capacity to deal with the exponential growth of cases of COVID-19 to come.

If I’d bothered to answer this one directly it would have been: “Fuck off, you Neolithic self-righteous sociopathic prig. How’s that for the respect you deserve?”

There are hotspots across Missouri. Urban, suburban, and rural. The whole state does need to shut down. Lives are at stake.

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Well, Governor Parson (r)?

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Previously:

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Do the right thing (March 23, 2020)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): “What, me worry?” (March 26, 2020

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Still wringing your hands, eh? (March 28, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? (March 31, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor? – part 2 (March 31, 2020)

HB 1108: Why choose? Buy one of each.

27 Wednesday Feb 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Andrew McDaniel, General Assembly, guns, HB 1108, trolling

Another gun bill, introduced today by Representative Andrew McDaniel (r):

HB 1108
Establishes the McDaniel Militia Act, which requires every person between 18 and 35 years of age who can legally possess a firearm to own an AR-15 and authorizes a tax credit for a purchase of an AR-15
Sponsor: McDaniel, Andrew (150)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2019
LR Number: 2290H.01I
Last Action: 02/27/2019 – Introduced and Read First Time (H)
Bill String: HB 1108
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

Why an AR-15, why not a Type 56? Just asking. They can buy Missouri farmland, we can buy their firearms. Win-win.

Previously:

HB 1052: Matchlock or flintlock? (February 25, 2019)

HB 1039: “We’re having a contest!” (February 26, 2019)

HB 1052: it’s all in the details (February 26, 2019)

HB 1052: it’s all in the details

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Andrew McDaniel, guns, HB 1052, missouri, right wingnuts, trolling

Yesterday Representative Andrew McDaniel (r) introduced a bill that would require every Missouri resident over the age of twenty-one to own a handgun. Details are now available.

The text [pdf] of HB 1052:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1052
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCDANIEL. 2259H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapters 41 and 135, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the McDaniel Second Amendment Act.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 41 and 135, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 41.1020 and 135.785, to read as follows:

41.1020. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “McDaniel Second Amendment Act”.

2. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) “Handgun”, a pistol, revolver, or other firearm designed to be held in one hand that is capable of firing .22 caliber ammunition or larger;
(2) “Resident”, a resident of this state who is twenty-one years of age or older and is not prohibited by law or court order from possessing a firearm.

3. Every resident of this state shall own at least one handgun.

4. Any resident twenty-one years of age or older who does not own a handgun on 10 August 28, 2019, shall have one year to purchase a handgun. Any resident who becomes twenty-one years of age after August 28, 2019, and does not own a handgun shall purchase a handgun no later than one year after becoming twenty-one years of age.

5. A resident may sell a handgun provided that the resident owns at least one handgun at all times.

135.785. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) “Handgun”, the same meaning as the term is defined under section 41.1020;
(2) “Taxpayer”, an individual subject to the state income tax under chapter 143.

2. For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, a taxpayer who did not own a handgun before he or she was required to own a handgun under section 41.1020 and who purchased a handgun in order to satisfy the requirements of section 41.1020 shall be allowed to claim a tax credit against such taxpayer’s income tax liability under chapter 143, excluding withholding tax imposed by sections 143.191 to 143.265, equal to seventy-five percent of the cost of the handgun purchased.

3. The total amount of tax credits authorized under this section shall not exceed one million dollars per tax year. Tax credits shall be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.

4. No tax credit claimed under this section shall be refundable.

5. The department of revenue may promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable, and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2019, shall be invalid and void.

6. Under section 23.253 of the Missouri sunset act:
(1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset on December thirty-first six years after the effective date of this section unless reauthorized by an act of the general assembly;
(2) If such program is reauthorized, the program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset on December thirty-first twelve years after the effective date of the reauthorization of this section; and
(3) This section shall terminate on September first of the calendar year immediately 30 following the calendar year in which the program authorized under this section is sunset.

“…This section shall be known and may be cited as the ‘McDaniel Second Amendment Act’…”

Uh, did the sponsor name the act after himself? Just asking.

“…’Handgun’, a pistol, revolver, or other firearm designed to be held in one hand that is capable of firing .22 caliber ammunition or larger…”

Well, maybe a miniature trebuchet with a wrist strap could work. You think?

“…Every resident of this state shall own at least one handgun…”

Do shares count? Just asking.

Damn. Think of the entrepreneurial possibilities! “Yes, I’d like to buy a 1/1000 share in a handgun. Maybe something in a nine milimeter.” “Why, yes, and your share comes with photo and a nicely engraved proof of ownership certificate. Visitation rights are extra.”

“…A resident may sell a handgun provided that the resident owns at least one handgun at all times…”

I dunno, I think the share thing could still work.

“…The total amount of tax credits authorized under this section shall not exceed one million dollars per tax year…”

Can you still get a tax credit if you 3D print your own handgun? Just asking. That might make the tax credit go farther.

The bill does include a sunset clause. Your right wingnut controlled General Assembly, always ready with the unintentional irony.

Previously:

HB 1052: Matchlock or flintlock? (February 25, 2019)

HB 1039: “We’re having a contest!” (February 26, 2019)

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

07 Sunday May 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Donald Trump, France, Jason Kander, missouri, social media, trolling, Twitter

The people of France didn’t let the Russians chose their president today.

From Jason Kander (D) this evening, via Twitter:

Jason Kander‏ @JasonKander
I’m reassured that we have an ally in France that will stand up to Putin since we don’t have anyone in the White House who will.
6:41 PM – 7 May 2017

That left a mark.

“Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): making it easy

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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4th Congressional District, missouri, social media, town halls, trolling, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler

Last week, Senator Claire McCaskill (D):

…I think some of my Republican colleagues are hiding and don’t want to come out and do town halls. Especially the members of Congress…

… Have any of them [Vicky Hartzler (r), Anne Wagner (r)] done town halls that you know of? I don’t think any of them have done a town hall. You know, if you can’t do a town hall I’m not sure why you would run. I think you’re supposed to be serving the public. I’m pretty sure, so…

Yesterday, via Twitter:

B Yates‏ @OldDrum
Great. Where can we find your schedule for townhall meetings with your regular constituents?

Rep. Vicky Hartzler  @RepHartzler
Had a great day touring Windsor and meeting with the community leaders there #MO4

2:37 PM – 17 Apr 2017

The great unwashed? Don’t hold your breath.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

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